Improvement in machines for cutting corn-stalks



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Machines for Cutting Gurn-Stalks. NOJQf/l, Patented Aprl14,l874.

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Machines for Cutting Corn-Stalks. No.1497'i5. Patented April141874.

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llldPRQlEillEbll" liti MACH NES Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.

FR CUTTING CORN-STALKS.

lldthfll, dated April 14,1874; application filed September 5, 1873.

To all whom it may wacom:

Be it known that I, .Mains ll. Baown, of Barnard, in the county of Nedaway and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Machines for Cutting Corin Stalks; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the aecompanying drawings, and to the letters orn reference marked thereon.

This invention is designed ior cutting cornstalks, &c.,in the field, and consists mainly of a frame of peculiar construction, which is adapted to be attached in an adjustable manner to the hind part of the ruiming-gear of a wagon, as will be fully described hereinafter.

In the drawings, Figure l represents a side elevation of my improvedmaehine5 Fig. 2, a plan view of the same; Fig. 3, an end elevation, and Fig. 4: a side elevation, et the stand ards detached.

To enable others skilled in the art to .malte and use my invention, I will now proceed to describe fully` its construction. and manner of operation.

A represents the axle, provided, in the usual manner, with wheels, holsters, hounds, Sec. B represents the frame carrying the cutting mechanism, which consists simply ot' side beams l) b, suita-bly united by cross-beams, as shown. U represents a cylinder, of proper niaterial and size, suitably journaled to the traine, preferably alittle in the rear ol' the center', which is provided, at regular and suitable intervals, with radiating arms c c c, having attached at their outer ends knilie-blades c', as shown. I) D represent standards, pivoted at their lower ends to the side beams ofthe traine Il, which are 'forked at their upper ends in such a manner as to extend beyond the axle and bolster on each side, as shown. rlhe lower end of each standard has a shoulder extending over the upper surface of the side beam of the frame, which has a curved face,

Ilhe standards are further proas shown..

bolt passing between the axle and the bolster,

cured to the pole in the usual manner, from which depend hooks c c, as shown.

The operation of the machine is as follows: 'It is drawn over the iield in any proper inanner, the frame being elevated or depressed, as `more or less weight -is required to eut the stalks. The hooks c c are designed to draw the stalks under the knives. The trame is adapted to swing upon the pivots of its supporting-standards sufficiently to accommodate itself to the uneven nature of the ground, but undue mot-ion in either direction is prevented by the overhanging shoulder of the standard.

I do not limit myself to any particular dimensions, but the following have been found to make a suitable machine: Frame, six feet long and three feet wide; cylinder, twelve from the center of Vthe cylinder, and made ot' three-fourth-inch square iron. The knives are tive in number. The journals are one-and-onefourth-inch square iron, with rounded ends. The machine, as a whole, is very simple, and yet well adapted for the purpose for which it is intended.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a corn-stalk cutter, the forked standards l), having the over-hanging shoulders X, incombination with the fame B, the standards being adapted, by means of the overhanging shoulders, to limit the oscillations of the trame, substantially as described.

This specifica-tion signed and witnessed this 15th day ot July, 1.873.

J AMES II. BItOlVN.

lYitncsscs AMOS BAKER,

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vided with suitable holes, by means ot' which they are secured in any desired position by a as shown. E represents the doubletree7 se inches in diameter; arms extending ten inches 

